Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…

Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…

Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report claims — could strengthen Nvidia’s open-model strategy and shore up position against rivals

If Nvidia proceeds with the takeover, the transaction will be a part of Nvidia’s increasingly aggressive investments across the AI ecosystem that spans from hardware to models to software. Last week, Nvidia agreed to pay…

China’s YMTC aims to become the world’s largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

YMTC’s listing turns that position into a funding mechanism. Margins earned at the top of the memory cycle are already paying for domestic tool development, and the IPO adds a capital source that sits outside the reach o…

Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion — CEO Jensen Huang says AI ‘has reached its inflection point’

For the second quarter of Nvidia’s FY2027, which ended on July 26, 2026, the company’s GAAP revenue hit a record $96.221 billion, up 18% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 106% compared to the same quarter a year ago. Nvidia…

Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker’s demands — says that gameplay leaks have been ‘heartbreaking for our team’

“It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all t…

Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’

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